Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY (INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS) ACT 1999 - SECT 6

             (1)  The provisions of a scheduled international social security agreement have effect despite anything in the social security law.

             (2)  Subsection (1) applies to a provision of an agreement only in so far as the provision is in force and affects the operation of the social security law.

             (3)  If:

                     (a)  immediately before he or she reaches pension age, a person is receiving a social security payment (other than age pension) solely because of the operation of a scheduled international social security agreement; and

                     (b)  on reaching pension age, the person becomes qualified for age pension because of the operation of paragraph 43(1)(c) of the Social Security Act 1991 ;

the age pension is taken to be payable to the person under the agreement referred to in paragraph (a).